Rowing apparatus.



No. 831,298. PATENTED SEPT. 18, 1906 J. H. RAE.

ROWING APPARATUS. APPLIOATION FILED P33 5. 1906.

JULIO H. RAE, OF DAYTON, NEVADA.

ROWING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 18, 1906.

Application filed February 5. 1906. Serial No. 299,663.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JULIO H. RAE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Lyon and State of Nevada, have invented new and useful Improvements in Rowing Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an apparatus for the propulsion of a boat or like article through the air by the medium of a supporting-track, oars, and a means by which the operation of the oars will propel the boat or other device over the supporting-track.

It consists in the combination or parts and details of construction, which will be more fully explained by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an end view showing my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of same. Fig. 3 is a detail showing the construction of stud 11.

It is the object of my invention to provide a device for use and amusement, which may be described as follows:

A represents supports of any suitable character having rails 2 fixed thereon. In the present case these supports are shown as standards with a suitably-braced framework and other supports 3 exterior to the rails 2. As here shown, the whole device is made rigid and connected by braces, as at 4, with transverse holding-rods 5, and adjusting-nuts, as at 6.

7 represents a boat or any equivalent structure which is supported upon wheels 8. These wheels are flanged to fit the rails 2 if the latter are of a suitable character, or if the track is grooved the wheels may be adapted to fit such a track. The wheels may be connected by a bent axle or other variety of axle, in which the boat or structure 7 is supported, or the axles may be secured directly to the sides thereof, the object being in any event to provide an easily-rolling support, and to insure the fullest ease of movement antifrictional bearings may be employed.

9 represents oars which may be connected in row-locks, as at 10, and the outer ends of the oars, or representatives of oars, are adapted to engage with studs or projections 11, which are fixed at intervals upon the supports 3. These studs are preferably loosely turnable with relation to the supports.

The operation will then be as follows: The

operator moving the cars in the manner of rowing a boat, the outer ends of the cars may be made to engage with any pair of the studs 11 behind which they are dropped and with which they will come in contact. Force being applied to the oars, it will be seen that the boat or structure will be moved forward in proportion to the power applied, thus propelling it along the supporting-track.

The device may be modified in various ways without materially altering the character thereof. The track may be made straight, circular, or sinuous, and it may have variations in the grade within the power of the operator, so as to increase or decrease the power required to drive the boat.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A boat or like structure, freely-revoluble wheels connected therewith, a track over which the wheels are movable, looselyturnable studs located in pairs exterior to the line of travel of the boat, and oars connected with the boat so that the outer ends may be engaged with the studs to propel the boat.

2. An amusement apparatus consisting of a boat, row-locks and oars fitting therein, rollers or wheels connected with the boat, a track upon which the wheels are adapted to travel, a series of upwardly-projecting studs in parallel lines exterior to the line of track, with which studs the oars are engaged to propel the boat, said studs being mounted on, and adapted to turn loosely relative to, the the second-named frame.

3. In an amusement apparatus, aboat having wheels connected therewith, a track, a framework upon which the track is suported, other frames located upon opposite sides of the wheel-track, brackets and adjusting-rods by which the structure is made unitary, revoluble studs projecting from the exterior framework, and oars movable with relation to the boat having the outer ends adapted to engage the studs.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

S. H. NOURSE, HENRY P. TRICOU. 

